Monday, January 28, 2008

Nokia Acquires Trolltech, Continuing the Trend of Greater Involvment of Traditional Software Companies in Open Source

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Nokia announced that it will be acquiring Trolltech. This acquisition continues a trend of traditional software companies becoming active in...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

HP Launches New Websites to Manage Open Source Software

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HP announced the launch of two websites to assist companies in managing open source software: http://www.fossology.org/ : This site provides...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Buying an Open Source Company

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451 Group has recently published a report on why companies would buy an "open source" company. Although I have not read the report...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Sun Microsystems Buys MySQL for $1 Billion

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Sun announced today that they are purchasing the open source database vendor, MySQL AB, in a deal valued at around $1 billion. The transacti...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Thinking Forward on Commercial Open Source: Third Annual Open Source Think Tank

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Commercial open source software is at an exciting cross roads. In the last year, its importance has been acknowledged by Gartner which decla...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

2007 Top Ten Free and Open Source Legal Issues

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The year 2007 has been the most active year for legal developments in the history of free and open source (“FOSS”). In fact, you would have ...
Monday, December 17, 2007

BusyBox Settles Second GPL Suit

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The Software Freedom Law Center ("SFLC") has settled a second BusyBox sofware lawsuit. The settlement for Xterasys is confidential...